Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of WWII

As a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish--th

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English Year 2015

Table of contents :
Prologue --
Book one : Plans and preparations. The decision, the setting, and the plan --
The deception and the intelligence apparatus --
What did the Allies know? --
The last few hours --
Book two : The first day. In front of St. Vith --
The Skyline Drive --
The Southern Shoulder --
The Northern Shoulder --
Reaction at the top --
Book three : The penetrations. Kampfgruppe Peiper --
"The damned engineers" --
The race for Bastogne : the first phase --
The race for Bastogne : the second phase --
The Defense of Wiltz --
Developing crisis at St. Vith --
Shaping the defense of St. Vith --
Book four : The Shoulders. In front of Luxembourg City --
In defense of the Twin Villages --
To gain the Eisenborn Ridge --
Book five : Dams against the tide. Command decisions --
The war against Kampfgruppe Peiper --
The last days of Kampfgruppe Peiper --
The defense of St. Vith --
The defense of Bastogne --
To relieve Bastogne --
In front of the Ourthe River --
Crisis before the Meuse. Book six : The road back. Crises in command --
Erasing the Bulge --
Epilogue --
Author's note --
U.S. Army regimental and battalion chart --
Order of battle --
Notes --
Bibliography.